Cisco Wireless :: 3502s / Mixing AP Models - DHCP Versus DNS For Controller Discovery
Jan 3, 2011
I'm adding some additional AP's (3502s) to an environment that is all 1131AG AP's. The DHCP is configured for DHCP option 43 for remote sites for layer 3 discovery. Since only one AP mode can use option 43, I've added a DNS entry for cisco-lwapp-controller in my local domain.My assumption here is that the new 3502's will be able to use DNS for discovery, while any additional 1131AG would continue to use DHCP option 43. will this work in a mixed environment?The new AP briefly showed up on my controller, but then disappeared. The LED is cycling red, green, off - indicating it is still in the discovery process. Could I effectively remove the option 43 in DHCP and have all AP's use DNS? Is this as reliable as option 43? What is the best practice for discovery?
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Mar 31, 2013
We are trying to navigate the waters in choosing between a in-house, controller-based, wireless network solution or a cloud-based solution. We have been presented with the usual suspects in cloud-based (Aerohive, Meracki, etc) and with Cisco (5500) and Aruba on the other side. We are a multi-campus organization with approx. 200 APs.Any hard reasons why go with a controller-based vs. cloud-based solution? If we must keep the conversation limited to Cisco, why go Meracki over Cisco's WLC solutions or vise versa?
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Feb 25, 2013
just ran a discovery on a large network and found 49 wireless controllers (5500, 4400 and 2000 series) and none of them are showing the controller serial number. They are all running 7.0.235.0 and I found no bugs that match this issue.
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Feb 26, 2013
We are currently looking to upgrade (re-design) our wireless network at our college. Any experience going from a local, controller-based wireless network to a cloud-based controller? If so, what have you found the pros and cons to be?
If you thought about going to a “cloud solution”, what stopped you?
We are currently running wireless at our 3 primary campus locations, and looking to add it to our 3 satellite locations. We use 4402 WLCs at our primary locations with a mix of 1140 and 1240 APs.
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May 3, 2012
My ASA 5505 has stopped giving out DHCP address to my machines.Everything was working fine and nothing has changed in the network. I've reloaded the firewall and clear all DHCP on the firewall I've even re-entered the cmd on the ASA.
I'm able to staticlly assigned address to the clients and all is way. When I do a DHCP debug on the ASA I don't see any events relating to the DHCP service apart from checking for lease expiry.
I've also tried to plug a machine straight into the ASA and no result. I finally did a packet capture and I am seeing the client machine sending out a DHCP discover packet and nothing else is responding.
My ASA config is:
dhcpd address 192.168.3.10-192.168.3.33 inside
dhcpd dns 8.8.4.4 interface inside
dhcpd option 3 ip 192.168.3.1 interface inside
dhcpd enable inside
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Jan 24, 2012
Have issue with iPhones and other smart phones being considered as excluded clients for the reason of Identity Theft? I am looking at one of my controllers and there are almost 680 excluded clients and most of them are smart phones and they are all being excluded for the same reason. It seems to be mostly iPhones but not all of the iPhones are experiencing the same behavior.
There is a mix of AP types (AP1010s, 1131s and 3502s) and also a mix of controller types (44XX and 3508). I have not been able to find any information to explain this behavior on the phone side and/or the wireless side.
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Jun 12, 2012
What would be the ramnifactions of using AIR-1242AG-A-K9 (g radios only: no b clients) and AIR-LAP1231G-AK9 (g radios: only no b clients) with AIR- ANT1728 (non diversity antennas) on the WLAN. Some of the APs 1242/ 1231 will be with in line of site of each other.
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Jun 13, 2013
Client has existing 1522 outdoor access points over different branches.1522 is dicontinued and 1552 is the replacement AP.Client intends to extend their outdoor wireless with the new AP's.Are there any known issues if the 1552 is mixed with 1522 envi?,Is a separate controller required for the new AP's?Will MESH work between 1522 and 1552 AP's?
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Apr 23, 2013
I am don't need anything unusual and I would love to go with the 2600/3600 APs, unless mixing them up is a problem.
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Jan 7, 2013
I have a Cisco Wlan Controller 2504 with 1042N AP (3-nos) every thing was working fine from past 2 months. Now i am getting a issue with clients which are connected to the wireless AP, they are not able to get an dhcp IP address from the 2960 Switch (DHCP Server). The clients are getting IP address as 0.0.0.0. [code]
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Aug 10, 2011
I have a 5508 WLC controller at the HQ with the employee ssid ,the dhcp scope on the ssid is 10.120.0.0/16 network.
However,I want this same ssid to be brodcasted to a remote site using HREAP access point but with different dhcp scope 10.102.0.0/16.
I have tried creating another interface for the remote site with a different dhcp scope(10.102.0.0) but the controller wont allow me create another wlan with same ssid that existed before to apply the new interface created for.
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Nov 7, 2012
All controllers are in version 7.2.111.3.C1 is a 5508, it is ou anchor controller.C2 is a 5508, it is a big site controller.C3 is a 2504, it is a small site controller. C2 and C3 are in the same mobility group than C1 (and all is up up in mobilty managment). When "DHCP Addr. Assignment" is enable on C1 : Clients on C2 received their IP address by our external DHCP server via C1 and the guest tunneling betwenn C1 and C2 and all is working fine. Clients on C3 don't received their IP address by our external DHCP server via C1 and the guest tunneling betwenn C1 and C3, so nothing work.
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Apr 8, 2008
I am trying to setup a guest vlan. I set up an interface for the guest vlan on my 4402 controller. I assigned the guest vlan interface an IP of 192.168.2.10 with a 24 bit subnet mask.
This vlan will go to my DMZ where there is no DHCP server so I need to setup the internal DHCP server. I created a new scope but I'm having trouble with what to put in the Network field for the DHCP scope. The pool addresses are 192.168.2.100-200. with a 24 bit subnet mask.
Every time I try to apply the configuration I get an "error in setting DHCP scope network and netmask".
I've tried using:
192.168.2.10
192.168.2.255
192.168.2.254
as entries for the Network setting but no go. The docs say to enter the IP address used by the management interface with subnet mask applied.
I was assuming they meant the interface for the guest vlan.
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Jul 2, 2012
While configuring a 5500 wireless controller, i came across this option of DHCP proxy under Advanced tab of Controller Option.It asks for the dhcp option 82 remote id format & the dhcp timeout.
1. What is the significance of this & when do we use it?
2. Also, under each wlan ssid that we create, there is an option of dhcp address required under the advanced tab. Do we need to use this option, if we are defining a normal dhcp pool in our controller for that ssid.
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Mar 20, 2013
How to disable dhcp proxy on controller and what is the impact of doing it in the middle? We tried once by giving 'config dhcp proxy disable' command but seeing virtual ip again.(likely it gets back to proxy mode). We also have ip helper address on the L3 interface. We have only external dhcp servers configured..
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Feb 28, 2013
i have two 5508 ver 7.3.0, one is the primary and one is the guest controller. mobility is up and running. i have an exising guest ssid working with wpa2-psk and web authentication and its working fine but i require a second guest ssid that only uses a wpa2-psk for ipod/ipads as i cant use passive client on primary controller. i presently have the one vlan range and dhcp setup on the guest controller to give addressing to either ssid. i know you can have multiple ssid setup on the guest controller but in other sites i have only had one guest connection comming from the primary controller, just a primary controller on each sites was only creating one link to the same guest controler.
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Jan 31, 2012
I have two 5508 controllers configured with an internal dhcp scope. The scopes on each controller are a /22. I need to expand the scope to provide more addresses. Is there an easy way to add a second dhcp scope without making changes to the existing scope? If so how will the clients devices be able to access that ip address range?
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Dec 5, 2012
We have a 5508 controller authenticates with WPA2-enterprise to 3 possible AAA servers. Today I tried migrating our DHCP server from a Windows 2003 machine to Windows 2008 R2. Migration went smoothly and all wired clients could get IP's. Reservations intact, scopes intact, etc.. you name it. I though it was a great success.
Fast forward about an hour when people started coming into work for the day. Calls started coming in about their laptops not able to connect to the network. I double checked with a spare laptop in our IT department and also my iPhone. Same issue. Seems the only thing I changed today was the DHCP server (from 10.1.1.1 to 10.1.1.2).
After racking my head on it for awhile, I re-enabled the "old" dhcp server (10.1.1.1) and disabled it on the new (10.1.1.2). Instantly wireless clients were able to connect.
Am I missing some configuration step in the 5508 controller when moving DHCP servers? I do plan on running 2 DHCP servers (10.1.1.2 and 10.1.1.10) for redundancy once I get the primary one moved over and working correctly.
I want to decommision the older 2003 server. Its time to raise the domain functional level.
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Jan 19, 2011
Due to lack of wires we decided to extend our network by using WET546 bridge by linksys. Ideally we looking to create topology like this:
(Computer)--eth--(WET546)---wireless----(AP/WLC2100)---(router)---(Internet)
WET546 successfully authenticates and looks pretty healthy on controller (see below) , however neither of computers plugged to WET546 was unable to obtain ip address from dhcp server , nor working with static ip. I was under impression what it might be related to some default policies on WLC2100. Logs (warning) on WLC2100 looks clean.
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Feb 23, 2012
In our test set up, we have two WLC 5508 Controllers connected via Checkpoint UTM-1 firewall Inside and DMZ Interfaces. Both the WLC controllers are connected to the firewall via Cisco 3750 switch. On the Local (Inside) Controller, guest SSID is enabled and attached to the wireless management Interface. On the remote anchor controller, guest SSID is enabled and attached to the Management Interface as well. The following configs are replicated on both the Controllers.
SSID Name - guest
Interface - Management ( VLAN 10 on Local and VLAN 20 on remote) -
Mobility Group: Same configs at both ends
SSID Anchor : Anchor SSID on local and local SSID on Anchor.
AP: CAPWAP 3502 Management Subnet
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Is there any thing missing in the wireless configs and or the firewall rules as i could not see DHCP request back from the Anchor Controller. Also, after DHCP is obtained, the web authentication request will be redirected to an Amigopod device for authentication. In this case is the redirect URL congiguration to be performed only on the Anchor Controller or is this to be replicated on both the Local and Anchor Controllers.
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Nov 6, 2011
We are considering order the AP541N for our network. A few questions...
1). Are there multiple models of the AP541N? or just one cisco part number?
2). I am assuming the basic antenna comes with it. If this is something that I need to buy seperate.
3). Are there part numbers for the POE injector? Need to know part numbers on the AP541N and the poe injectors?
4). We would buy a couple of these and run them in cluster mode. My understanding is that I won't need a controller. Do I need to buy a certain model to use the clustering or is that available on all the AP541N?
5). Can I have this talk to active directory to authenticate users? Is that tough to do? Do I need install some kind of agent on a domain controller? I have configured the ASA to use Active Directory for authentications. Should it be any more difficult that that?
I have setup a few other Cisco APs before and am generally familair with wireless. But, I am not a "wireless expert" and don't have any experience with this particular product.
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May 25, 2012
are there any AP models which support 5500 series and dont support 4400 series. Actually we are looking to get some new AP with higher bandwidth and External Antenna How to differentiate between AP models with clean air feature supported and not
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Feb 14, 2012
I have one AP541N and need to extend the wireless network with a second wireless AP. Which models of AP can I use with the AP541N to achieve a 'cluster', please? Is it just with a second AP541N or can I use other Cisco APs to achieve the cluster?
Am I correct in thinking that doing this will allow wireless clients to 'roam' seamlessly between the two APs?
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Apr 3, 2013
question on 4500 SUP-7LE, this documentation is not 100% clear:
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When in single sup mode, can I have the following combinations?
1 SFP+ and 1 SFP << pretty sure this is supported
1 SFP+ and 2 SFP << think it's supported
1 SFP+ and 3 SFP << doubtful
2 SFP+ and 2 SFP << think it's supported
3 SFP+ and 1 SFP << doubtful
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Jun 1, 2011
I am able to view clients, rogue APs, rogue clients etc, but the information is faily inaccurate. Thus, I am trying to calibrate using the RF calibration models. I have created a new model and am attempting to add data points.After adding the client MAC, selecting the floor plan and clicking next, the floor plan loads and a message pops up stating: "Could not enable S60 across all relevant controllers on this floor". I click OK, and select "point" as the calibration method. When I place the calibration point on the map and click GO I am presented with the following message: "Failed to initiate data collection. Please make sure your client is connected on the wireless network and then try again." Both of these messages can be seen in the attached screenshots.
I have confirmed that the client is associated to an AP located on the map.I have confirmed connectivity of the client.I have used both the Cisco AIR-CB21AG-W-K9 (CCX V5) and the integrated intel wireless card (CCX V4).I am running WCS 7.0.172.0, MSE 7.0.201.204, and WLC 7.0.116.0.
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Mar 31, 2013
Region : Argentina
Model : TL-WDR4900
Hardware Version : V1
I am about to buy one of these two models tl-wdr7500 and tl-wdr4900 that look exactely the same and I am trying to figure out what is the difference between them?
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Feb 10, 2011
I am having trouble adding a computer to the Domain Controller. I have a cable modem running into a di-524 router. The router has DHCP and DNS relay disabled. I set the LAN IP Address of the router to 192.168.2.1. The router is connected to a switch with 10 pc's and a server running 2003. The server has an IP Address of 192.168.2.2. I setup a DHCP server inside 2003 with a scope of 192.168.2.100-192.168.2.199. Under scope options the router is set to 192.168.2.1 and DNS Servers is set to 192.168.2.2 (the ip address of the domain controller). When I try to add the computer it cannot contact the domain controller. Is there something wrong with my DHCP config or DNS?
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Oct 23, 2012
We have many remote offices that we want to add public wifi and a couple of other services that would be completely outside of our internal network. Each office has a 3750 with plenty of open ports. How can I safely create a vlan for public access on these switches which currently have our internal network on. I have read that people are doing this to save on the cost of purchasing a dedicated switch. Some people are using access lists and one person mentioned creating a private vlan for the public network. I looked up private vlan and it seemed bit confusing.
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Dec 15, 2011
I am struggling with the following issue. I have 6 1130 Accesspoints in lightweight mode connected to a 2106 wlan controller which runs software version 7.0.98.0. Everything seems to work fine. Clients can connect to the wifi network. However, they don't get an ip address from the dhcp server which is on the same subnet as the wlan controller. See attached screenshots for configuration. I have also tried the internal dhcp server of the wlan controller, but the same problem remains.
The logs says: Dropping primary discovery request from AP e8:b7:4x:xx:xx:xx - maximum APs joined 6/6 There are 6 AP's connected
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May 2, 2013
I have a Nexus 7000 Core Switch , and i need to allow the domain controller ip 10.x.x.x for DHCP relay on switch.
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Mar 10, 2013
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Dec 18, 2011
When two Routers Models 1941 (Main Router) and 1841 work connected with HSRP, and a second LAN card is added to each one of them If i connect the GE 0/1 and Fe 0/1 of each of one of them To FireWall1 (in cluster with FireWall2) AND i connect the second LAN (Added) of each one To FireWall2 (in cluster with FireWall1) If FireWall1 will failure , How can Router 1941 know, to move traffic from GE 0/1 to the second LAN card connected to FireWall2 (which is in charge now, by cluster definition)
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Mar 4, 2013
We are looking at doing some switch replacement. These switches will be in for ~7 years.We need POE for a VOIP phone system, and 10gb uplinks back to the core. We want to have the ability to go POE+ in the future.
We were quoted from our vendor for:WS-C3850-48P-S with 2x715w Power supplies. It looks like the data sheet says that to get POE+ you need 2x1100w or 1x1100w & 1x715w. Do we need to step up to the WS-C3850-48PF-S?
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